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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.


Thomas Carlyle

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THOMAS CARLYLE Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The preservation community, in all frankness, has not been as organized in the past as they could ha...
BLAKE HALLMAN Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible
THOMAS PAINE I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which t...
JOHN ADAMS A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses...
E.N. KIRK A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is ...
FRANKLIN GRAHAM The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized s...
FELICE PICANO It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be...
HANNAH ARENDT I find it hard to take straight fantasy, as I don't believe in magic or the occult, and hard SF leav...
ERIC BROWN True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE Fremont has always been a leader in Nebraska for historic preservation. In my mind, this building is...
BILL CALLAHAN If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human...
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GEN. THOMAS HARRISON Historical preservation has been recognized as something that does a lot of good for the state of Fl...
CHRISTOPHER ECK Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly system...
MAWDE ROYDEN The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the...
BURT SHAVITZ books are a work of art. every word has a place in those pages, there is a reason they are there.
HELENA JEAN ...she made her home in between the pages of books.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a go...
ANNA QUINDLEN The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a f...
HOPE MIRRLEES Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'...
ANGIE KARAN Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.
DON PATERSON Oh, that? I never thought it was eavesdropping, Aslan. Wasn't it magic?"

"Spying on peopl...
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PANKAJ MISHRA It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapi...
LAFCADIO HEARN We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
NICHOLAS LEA The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave...
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JAMES A. FROUDE Wondering where the Mokians get all those shark teeth? Well it involves using children who read the ...
BRANDON SANDERSON It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it ...
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ANDREA BOCELLI All That We Are Is The Result Of What We Have Thought Or Done.
ALANA HERBERT Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
WOODY ALLEN Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.
RICKY JAY This isn't any less of a problem than we thought it was in the mid-1990s, but the amount of work tha...
MATT HOTLE As far as I can tell 15 pages with quotes, it's a lot of...
DEYTH BANGER The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave...
JAY KRISTOFF I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterpri...
F. SIONIL JOSE At that point, Roberts either has to join them, saying that Roe is good law, ... or he has to join t...
MICHAEL DORF These students have sent a message, and hopefully it has been heard in the ... White House. However,...
DOMINGO GARCIA This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coales...
DARRYL PINCKNEY The Bookshop has a thousand books,
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door...
NANCY BYRD TURNER The proper study of mankind is books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Carlyle would never have gotten to the level that it is at today had it not been for this premeditat...
DAN BRIODY The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Through books we can time travel, play make-believe and even create our own intangible art using the...
THE MODERN BOWERBIRD: TALES OF A BOOKSHELF Bill Buford has been one of the great fiction editors in the history of the magazine, bringing into ...
DAVID REMNICK The congressman has done everything he said he would do, has been doing it while taking care of his ...
ABBE LOWELL Louie is an animator and illustrator by trade, and I can tell you that the pages he has been turning...
DAN VADO The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours...
DIANE SETTERFIELD The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he ha...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappoin...
HENRY MACKENZIE Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it ...
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of...
ALLAN BLOOM The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the m...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting tha...
DAVID LISS A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of ...
TERRY PRATCHETT In the last six weeks, Bill Thomas' Kern County has just gotten way more than it deserves, and I kno...
BRAD SHERMAN The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no d...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Thomas Abrams is magic. He’s a wordsmith, a baby whisperer, a blue-eyed asshole, but most of all, ...
SAFFRON A. KENT Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The end of all my labors has come. A...
THOMAS AQUINAS LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAG...
SARAVAN MAHESWER The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or JOHN ADAMS On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
WOODY ALLEN For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the re...
CHRIS ANDERSON In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite...
J. I. PACKER The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or pass...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passio...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE This world is a joke, and I'm in it
OLIWAH GOUDEE The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Historically, the software industry has been an industry in which it was fine to have months or year...
GARY FLAKE Concentrated thought held long enough in one's mind has the potential to perform magic in one's life...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
THOMAS A. EDISON All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
DUANE MICHALS I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and great...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If a man realizes that he has been created in God’s kinship and similarity, all obstacles will be ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she ...
NAPOLEON HILL The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surm...
H. L. MENCKEN Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, whe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye...
GARY F EVANS... The torch will also go to the top of Mount Everest as it is known in the west. This has never been d...
LIU QI It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president...
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THOMAS CARLYLE The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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